Science maps ‘immense heaven’ supercluster of galaxies

September 4, 2014 12:45 PM

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Laniekea is a cluster of 100k galaxies, including the Milky Way

Galaxies, the immense groups of stars centered around black holes, are not cool James Dean-style loners. More often than not, they’re found in groups, and that goes for our own Milky Way galaxy, it seems: Scientists at the University of Hawaii have mapped out an immense “supercluster” of 100k+ galax...